Being the master of your life is a conscious choice.

It is a choice that also resonates with building a network marketing business today. Let me explain:

It is never the big things in life which leave you stranded, which stop you from doing your daily slight edge activities.

It is the small, trivial little things that eat up your time – may it be phone calls or mishaps or perhaps having a low day altogether, there are so many “reasons” why the important things don’t get done in a nicely structured way. This shows up in your daily life when you consider it clearly.

Backlogs in daily household things like washing the dishes, doing odd cleaning jobs, or in your work environment perhaps a backlog in filing papers or some book keeping work that is over due; perhaps you have on the back of your mind that your car should finally be washed and cleaned up, yet there does not seem to be time to do any of the listed chores.

Unless you make a conscious choice that you do what you need to do “NOW” nothing will change.

It is this conscious choice that will change your life!

All of the above also reflects on building a network marketing business today. All the issues in your life which are hanging around “undone” will prevent you also from doing the small regular activities which are required in building such a business successfully.

While in your daily life it  may very likely be enough that you make your personal choice to get on with things, it may be a good idea that you have a coach and mentor for business to help and support you so that you stay on track.

However – your conscious choice is the foundation for your success as much as your WHY that represents the driving force to keep you going even at times when things get tight.

Choose to Master Your Life – Build a Network Marketing Business Today – A Life You Can Only Dream of Will be Your Rewards.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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Network Marketing Today – when you  make the effort of learning this trade well is the solution for a life in freedom and abundance.

You hear it right – it is a trade that you have to learn and you have to learn it well. It requires a bunch of communication skills, but in today’s world also a bunch of internet skills.

AND – you are self employed in it, which is your benefit as much as it may be your curse.

To make the most of it you have to develop into the person you need to be: self loving, caring communicator who will listen at least twice as much as speak. It is the trusting relationship you create with people that will take you far.

In addition you have to provide your own working schedule and stick to it no matter what. There are many distractions in life at home that may take your time and since you are self employed you need to be careful that you are not carried away. Time is racing and the tasks you have missed out on are missed out on.

For me it is freedom to be able to work in the early mornings or at night so that I can make the most of being outside working in my garden which is my passion. However, it takes dedication to sit down at the pc for work after a long and tiring day out.

There is this cynical statement: “tomorrow I will do this or that” or “tomorrow I will start my diet” – that’s the kind of attitude that will get you nowhere. It will create nothing and you will not make a good role model for the people who are watching you.

Attention – people are watching you – your team will be watching you closely and unless you give them a good example what ever unproductive example you give them will spread in your group like wild fire.

This is what I mean when I say “curse”. 

The conclusion is: do your homework well, establish a lifestyle that you want to set up as a role model for your team and help them learn and grow and you will agree:

If Not Network Marketing – What?

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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The Tale of the Fox and the Stork

A fox had asked a stork to be his guest. He provided lovely food, but only on very flat plates so that the stork with its long bill couldn’t eat a crumb. Greedily the fox ate all himself, but kept asking the stork to help himself with the delicious food.

The stork felt betrayed, but he stayed and praised the exceptional hospitality. The next day he asked his friend to come to dinner. The fox had a feeling that the stork would take a revenge and declined the invitation. However the stork kept asking him so eventually the fox agreed to come. 

When he arrived at the stork’s place he found all sorts of delicate food  All was served in long slim  crockery. “Help yourself as I do” said the stork, “feel entirely at home” and continued eating everything by  himself, whilst the fox was annoyingly condemned to just smell and lick the outside of the crockery.

Hungry he got up from the meal and admitted that the stork had given him an adequate revenge for his wantonness.

Fact is: Don’t do anything onto others which you don’t want to be done to yourself.

When you look round and see what is going on online and at the kind of offers you see it is not surprising to see the rate of failures of well intended people who want to build a successful business online.

This is not only restricted to the internet it happens in real life on a daily basis as well.

In the long run, if you want to achieve success in network marketing you need to go for the ethical thing, so that your work is not in vain and you will be able to retire on what you have built.

To Your Ethical Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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“Select your company wisely” – I like the pun in this title.

We have spoken a lot about what to bear in mind when you choose the company you intend to work with. when you are intending to have success in a network marketing business today,  what to watch out for and what to avoid.

It is interesting that the same topics always apply to many areas of life.

Let me tell you the story of

The Donkey Who was Tested:

A man bought a donkey, however, he arranged for a trial period with the seller. He took the donkey and walked with it to his farm. When they arrived he let the donkey loose to see what the animal would do.

There were already several donkey running around in the farm yard and as soon as the new donkey was loose he trotted around and chose to join the fattest and laziest of the donkeys on the yard at its feeding place.

When the farmer saw this he immediately put the cord around the donkey’s neck again and walked it back to its owner. The owner was surprised and couldn’t understand how the farmer could have tested the donkey that quickly.

The farmer told him that he had seen enough: “Considering the  company he chose he must be quite a bad guy” he replied.

This story is quite significant also in the human realm. You will surely know that

• people over time earn about the same as the average of their 5 closest buddies, or
• we all try to keep our children away from the influence of bad company,
• we try ourselves to stay away from totally negative people
• we will feel pulled down by evil gossip

This states only a few points, but shows clearly that this story holds a lot of truth.

Especially when striving for success at building a network marketing business today the human factor is of major importance. You need the positive support of like minded people and lots of input for your personal growth like water and air.

To Your Wise Choice

Frieke Karlovits

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There is this big contrast between some people who seem to be having massive success in network marketing today and the others who keep struggling in spite of lots of effort.

The difference between them is attitude!

Just recently I made a YouTube on attitude where I sum up about it – you might want to check it out.

Attitude is a personal quality which  to a large extent is programmed by our environment from early childhood onwards. However, once we grow up we have it in our hands to replace those parts of our basic programming which we find do not serve our purpose in life.

Attitude can be “re-programmed” too. It is a process you cannot do it by pressing a button, but once you are alerted to the need of it and you actually want it you can do it.

The first step will be to spot the bits you want to change. Are you perhaps one of those people who in a conversation with others find it easy to agree on the surface by saying “yes, BUT”? I give you an example. I show you a way how to create leads in network marketing today. You listen carefully and then you reply: Yes, I perfectly understand where you are coming from, but don’t you think I could do it that and that way? Hm – as a matter if fact you have only humored me,  however, you  have said NO between the lines.

This kind of attitude is not very obvious and most people will consider it charming behaviour and  interaction, yet it is limiting. It limits your willingness of being coachable. Does this serve you? Certainly not!

Once you are alerted to the topic you will start noticing it when you are interacting. At first perhaps a little annoyed, then over time you will grin and know you have “caught yourself” once again in the old pattern. You will start noticing the same behaviour in many others and eventually you will stop it.

Wow – you have grown! Spot the next handicap in your programming and start working on it.

You may say this is hard – yes, may be it is, but it is very well worth your time.

If you are willing to accept support in this venture find yourself a mastermind group of like-minded people.Your progress will be a lot faster and it will be more fun to share and learn, as you won’t feel alone in the desert with a task which is a challenge.

The best thing, if you are stepping into this process because you want to have success at network marketing, would be to join a mastermind group of network marketers – that will cover two topics in one stroke. You will grow and you can improve other skills at the same time, no matter in which business you are.

To Your Attitude of Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor with A Servant’s Heart

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“Insane Productivity”

It appears to be insane to use this expression for extremely high productivity – a real joke!

It is obvious that  to achieve high success in network marketing today you are looking out for strategies that let you explode your productivity.

You will say at once that it is leverage that creates this productivity in a network marketing business. This is true, but you need to get there in the first place.

Leverage is the result of effort accumulated over time. A new network marketing business doesn’t start with success on day one, nor does any other business in fact. You need to do all the diligent homework you do in any other business and then  get it going through persistence, personal development and nurturing team work.

In this process there are a number of things which may help you on the way:

• Be peaceful within. High productivity needs work, no doubt, but you also need peace of mind and a relaxed approach. Love what you are doing and be focused. When you love what you are doing you will be able to see things in a positive light so that everything will flow freely.
• Take action. There is no productivity without action! It is not enough to plan to climb the Mt.Everest – you need to go there and actually do it!.
• Get organized. You need to have a clean workplace. Don’t push  things off and work without delays. There are some people who have the strange idea that anyone who is tidy is only too lazy to put in a good search – I think investing that search time into work will get you a lot further.
• Be proactive. Let your creativity kick in – it may even help you to get things done a lot quicker than anticipated.
• Do what you love or love what you do. In any work schedule there will be things you really like and others which you don’t really like that much – do them with a good mood nevertheless it will minimize procrastination. With practice you may get over this dislike.  Let work be your passion and it will be easy.
• Communicate with nature. We are part of nature and cannot be detached from it. Food, water air and all around us are part of nature. Blending with nature will set your mind at rest and the better you manage it on all levels the healthier you are likely to be – this again increases your  productivity. Your success in your network marketing business will  benefit greatly – especially if your products are in tune with a natural aspect – like healthy food, or whatever.

Implementing these thoughts into your life-style and business building activities you will be an excellent role model for your network marketing team and you will attract awesome people as business partners.

The result will be incredible leverage and a rate of success in your network marketing business you can now only dream of

To Your Insanely Productive Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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 Life-style

Life as you want it

Network marketing today

…how do they relate? Let’s look at real life today and let’s be honest.

The world   is changing at a rapid pace and change even keeps accelerating.

• We have come from hundreds of years of being either independent or totally dependent. Independent either through inherited wealth and status or else through being a landlord and farmer or a trades man who made his living through proudly working the trade of the family or the one that was learned. Dependent as a servant, slave, owned peasant and the like.
• Then the industrial age dawned which as any major change in society brought not only added opportunities but also a shift in wealth/poverty and status. It was in the sixties of the past century when general income reached a level that people considered themselves well-off. However as everything in life also this period gave way to the natural cycle of up and down.

It was in those days when the idea of network marketing dawned. So by now it should be quite established in the minds of people, however it is not.

Like in any independent business or trade the scope of variety is so big and of course also the “hang-ons” have discovered this new branch which has made it difficult to create an excellent reputation. Adventurers and hang-ons tend to get into everything which can be done at low cost in their constant quest of finding something that might give them and income for nothing and network marketing requires none of the investments you normally have when you start your own business.

Let’s look at the essence. What do most people want in life? they want happiness and an income that gives them a life-style of freedom. Freedom to enjoy life, to be with family and friends, to travel, to have a lovely home – whatever, let your imagination play…

Can you have all of this in a job? Not easily nowadays and not really in the best of days either. Of course there is always a small group who will make it anyways, but that is not the major part of the population.

In network marketing today:

• do you have to work? Definitely.
• does it take time to become established? Definitely
• do you need to be educated? Definitely – Apprenticeship on the job!
• do you have a long-term perspective? Definitely
• do you create a life-time income? Definitely, provided you do it until then

And: you don’t have a boss, you don’t have a 9 to 5 job, you will not be fired (instead you can fire your boss at some stage), you have no limitation as to how far you want to grow it, you can have success at network marketing today by doing what is required.

Network Marketing Today is both:

A Blessing – you are running your own business

A Curse – you have to do it yourself (none kicks you to be active)

Network Marketing Today is all about YOU, your will to achieve your goals and your motivation to do the required work. If you do create success in network marketing today you will be living a life you could only dream of whilst you were an employee.

To Your Well-organised Success

Frieke Karlovits

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How do you find out “who is who”?

In the old days we used to say in German: “Paper is Patient” – which means  that anything can be put on paper and unless you have the knowledge or the means to find out you can believe it or not. It may be the greatest of wisdom, yet it may be the greatest of rubbish. The sheer fact that something was written down is not a sign of quality.

Today the internet is a far more challenging place to be when in comes to searching for information, people, a business, or whatever comes to your mind. Anyone has the possibility to put up anything and it is up to the user to distinguish what is what.

So what is happening? At all times there were quite a lot of people who were born actors – they can produce themselves in a way that makes a lot of noise, a lot of glamour; they write/speak big words, yet when you think what they say it is hot air. I am sure you know what I mean.

Anyone who looks for information on a topic and or person  within their own sphere of training and knowledge will find it comparatively easy to select and find the right thing; there are enough templates in the mind to give the guide lines.

However, when you go out and try to find out about a topic you are not familiar with –  what do you take for true and what do you take for false?

Especially in new business areas, where many people do not even know the precise definition of what they are looking for – for instance, who will be able to distinguish precisely between affiliate marketing, direct selling, internet marketing or network marketing. Most people very likely will not be able to specify these business models – all the more so as each model has so many varieties again. It is obvious that those who scream at the top of their voice how excellent their offer is and how advantageous newcomers will find it, that they will make the newbie a millionaire in less than no time and many other flashy things  are wide spread on the internet…

It doesn’t surprise me  that so many people are taken in, are trustful believers until they are burnt heavily by loosing money and more.

You need to be aware – opportunity comes on cats paws – those who are excellent as a rule are not showy, they see the big picture and they are far too busy building their business in a thorough and solid way. They have learned to make the law of attraction work for them and pick up the volunteers and train them well so that they can walk in the footprints of success they have left as a trail.

Real personal achievers are humble – they know how life works, they have faith in the process and follow it with dedication and ethical methods.

This doesn’t only apply to modern business you find it everywhere – those who are really knowledgeable need not speak big words, they can, as a rule explain the most complicated things in simple words so that even the man in the street can understand. they don’t look down on people who haven’t learned as much. They actually practice that the only time you can look down on a person is when you help them get up!

Resume – when you are looking for something worth while, don’t fall for the boasters, the screamers – take  the solid, ethical and long-term variety of the offers, those which you might have to find!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor with a Servant’s Heart

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At no point in history  was it possible to do anything just offhand.

When you start out doing something you normally should want to find out how things are to be done. It doesn’t matter if it is cooking or growing vegetables or doing business of which ever kind – you need to find out what you require to do it successfully.

With practice you’ll come to a point of competence and you’ll find yourself accomplishing your goals gracefully and confidently. 

You may even become aware that you’ll do things that you never dreamed you could do or you may discover powers/capabilities you never knew you had or even existed.
If you’re prepared, you’re able to feel confident. You will not waver from the path you have chosen.

For some strange reason when people go in to network marketing this very normal approach seems to be “invisible” to them. Most seen to think they can do it anyways and in the end they wonder why they do not succeed.

There can be no great courage when there is no confidence or assurance.
Half the battle is in the conviction that you can accomplish what you undertake.

Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s the result of constant work and dedication.

It is very much easier to accomplish when you work in a mastermind group of like minded people who will give you the confidence and the trust in you till you have achieved it yourself.

A Mastermind group will also give you support in developing your personality or in overcoming things you have accumulated in life which will not be so easy to shed or which you might even have hidden in front of yourself in order to be able to survive.

Look out and find the mentor and team you feel you can trust and you’ll be surprised how the world changes around you!

To Your Growth

Frieke Karlovits

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Whatever we do in life, energy is at the bottom of it if we realise it or not.

- Having energy is the first rule of success. It is more important than any other aspect.

- Know how to concentrate energy. You must focus your energy on important matters. it is the only way to make sure you don’t disperse it!

Take a laser beam – it can be used for cutting, even for surgeries and many other highly specialised applications.

Accordingly nothing will add more power to your life than concentrating your energy on your goals.
To achieve success you need to create this laser focus of bundling all your energy directing it on your burning desire. This will let you achieve success.

Draw from all your resources, use all your talents and faculties, boost your energy, focus all you know and can do on your objective.
We cannot walk up and down a hill in the same time – so when we really want to achieve, there is only one way – bundle your energy and focus.

This attitude is a necessity in life and business in general, but even more so in network marketing, where your success is a direct reply to who you are.

The Law of Attraction works.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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